Volume XLI, Number 2 Salem, Oregon February 2019

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1 WILLAMETTE VALLEY GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY NEWSLETTER Volume XLI, Number 2 Salem, Oregon February 2019 President: Elizabeth Tice eliztice@comcast.net Newsletter Editor: Elizabeth Tice willvgs@yahoo.com WVGS Web Site WVGS ACTIVITIES SALEM MEETINGS Willamette Valley Genealogical Society Meeting February 9, 2019, 10:30 am to 1 pm Salem Public Library Central Library 585 Liberty St SE Salem, OR Anderson Room A, Lower Level 10:30 am 11:45 am General Membership Meeting. A business meeting will be held to conduct society business. 12 noon 1 pm Program Speaker: WVGS member Dave Bruey The Genographic Project DVD and discussion. The project is a mutliyear research initiative of the National Geographic Society. The Genographic Project is anonymous, nonmedical, and nonprofit. It aims to gather and analyze research data in collaboration with indigenous and traditional peoples. About fifteen years ago Dave submitted several family DNA samples to the National Geographic Genographic Project, which analyzes migration patterns back tens of thousands of years. He will play a DVD about the Genographic Project and present some results from his family s DNA tests. David Bruey moved from Wisconsin to Salem three years ago and joined our Society. He volunteers at our library desk on Friday afternoons. His university career field was cross-cultural and international education. He and WVGS President Liz Tice presented a genealogy session at the State Diversity and Inclusion Conference in Dave has completed twenty-one genealogical research courses and is taking two more at the present time. He is a volunteer photographer for Find-A-Grave.com. This spring he plans to publish the first chapter of his family history from the late 1500s in England to the early 1800s in Ohio. WVGS programs are always open to the public. Upcoming Programs for 2019 March Doug Crosby & Dave Stewart DNA Again April Tom Dill & Ed Austin Railroads and Migration May Video Creating a Research Plan: Tips from NEHGS Research Services June Doug Crosby & Liz Tice Research Tips & Hints July Group workshop Approaches to Solving a Brickwall September Jim Johnson Land Records October Patrick Harris Aurora Colony February 7th, Thursday 11:30 am to 1:30 pm WVGS Executive Board Meeting. We will meet at the Broadway Commons in an upstairs room. The Broadway Commons is at 1300 Broadway Street NE, Salem. Board meetings are open to all members Meeting Dates All in Anderson A at Salem Public Library. January 12 July 13 February 9 August 10 March 9 September 14 April 13 October 12 May 11 November 9 June 8 December 14

2 Page 2 February 2019 WVGS Information MEMBERSHIP REPORT By Suzan Rempel Membership as of January 12, 2019 was 22 Life Members, 60 single memberships, 12 family memberships (22 individuals), and 1 Historical Society for a total of 107 members. Welcome new members Anne May and Jolie Gilman. Newsletter We send newsletters to our members and exchange societies by from our Yahoo account (willvgs@yahoo.com). If any member would prefer a hard copy, please let me know. Or if we don t have your and you re willing to get your newsletter by , let me know your address. The same is true for our exchange societies and complimentary newsletters. We also are ing the Beaver Briefs to members. If you want a hard copy, the cost is still an additional $7.00 for postage. Beaver Briefs can be accessed by members on our website under Member Page with a password. If you need your password, contact Liz Tice. WVGS and Salem Public Library The Willamette Valley Genealogical Society collection of books, CDs and microfilm/microfiche is housed at Salem Public Library, 585 Liberty St SE Salem, Oregon. Our collection is online through the Chemeketa Cooperative Regional Library Service. The catalog for Salem Public Library can be searched at spl/?dt=list Parking at Salem Public Library The Library Parkade is metered parking at $.75 an hour. Parking is free after 6 pm. The Pringle Parkade is free on week-ends and after 6 pm. Otherwise you will have to find street parking in the residential areas. Volunteer Hours at Salem Public Library: Monday Closed Tuesday - Saturday 11:00 am - 5:00 pm Sunday 1 pm to 4 pm DNA Help By appointment Fred Meyer Community Rewards Willamette Valley Genealogical Society has signed up with Fred Meyer Community Rewards as a non-profit. If you shop at Fred Meyer and use your Rewards Card, it also helps us. Sign up for the Community Rewards program by linking your Fred Meyer Rewards Card to Willamette Valley Genealogical Society. You can do this on our website under Help. Then, every time you shop and use your Rewards Card, you are helping WVGS earn a donation! You still earn your Rewards Points, Fuel Points, and Rebates, just as you do today. Thank you! WVGS s Fred Meyer Community Rewards number is IW083 (this is a new number August 2018). Questions about Autosomal DNA? Denise Sproed, member of the Association of Professional Genealogists, is available to answer your questions about Autosomal DNA testing after 5pm. Contact her on our web page to make an appointment. NORPAC Label Redemption Program This money-making program is just to cut out the UPC code on FLAV-R-PAC, Santiam, and WESTPAC products and turn them in to WVGS. Labels can be turned in at any Saturday WVGS meeting or mailed to WVGS. WVGS Officers for 2019 Elected Officers President: Elizabeth Tice 1st Vice-President (Program): Doug Crosby 2nd Vice-President (Membership): Suzan Rempel Recording Secretary: Sally Broadwater Corresponding Secretary: Tony Hoff Treasurer: Barbara Foster Appointed Positions Newsletter Editor: Elizabeth Tice Beaver Brief Editors: Dennis Hill & Craig Smith Librarians: Deanne Smith Volunteer Coordinator: Craig Smith Publicity: George Cropsey Webmaster: Dennis Hill Periodicals: Jerry Rodgers

3 February 2019 Page 3 WVGS News 2019 Membership Time to Renew! Our special membership committee recommended changes to our form for 2019 so that we can include research information on our Member Page. In addition, due to rising postage costs, the cost of receiving a hard copy of Beaver Briefs will increase to $7.00 for members. An additional option for non-members will be to receive only four mailed issues of Beaver Briefs for $20. We mailed new forms to all current members. Even if you are a Life Member or have previously filled out the research information on renewal, we will ask all members to complete the new form and mail it back so that everyone can be included in our project. You can mail your completed membership form to our address: WVGS, P.O. Box 2083, Salem, Oregon, We re looking to having a great 50th year! We maintain our membership list until March 31, although Beaver Briefs will not be sent electronically or by mail to those who have not renewed for Beaver Briefs The Winter Issue, Volume 51, No. 1, of Beaver Briefs is ready! Co-Editors Craig Smith and Dennis Hill have worked together to produce an updated publication. We will send a pdf version to members and exchange societies. Members can also access the quarterly on our webpage under Member Page. The version on our web page has color pictures. Members who have paid $7.00 to cover postage for 4 issues for 2019 will receive a copy by USPS mail (sorry no color). If you need your password for the Member Page please contact us at willvgs@yahoo.com. Table of Contents SPECIAL ARTICLES: The Voyage of the Love and Unity...2 Byron D. MacPherson, Illustrator...5 Writing Rose... 9 Finding my Great-Grandfather s War Genealogy Tool Box: A List of State Censuses...21 CONTINUING SERIES: Excerpts from the Oregon Statesman..29 REGULAR FEATURES: Letter from the Editor...1 Surname Index...35 Beaver Briefs Vol. 51, No. 1 will be sent by or US mail on February 1, Also don t forget that we are soliciting articles for Beaver Briefs from our members. We all have stories and maybe unusual research. Let s share! Here is the timelines for the next issue of Beaver Briefs. Number 2 Spring Publish Date: May 1st March 1st Deadline for article submission April 1st Deadline for final copy sent to production editor April 15th Deadline for Table of Contents to newsletter editor Exchange Periodicals WVGS still exchanges newsletters and bulletins with other societies. We also subscribe to several publications. These are available for members to look at. Printed copies at Salem Public Library: Mennonite Family History Family Tree Magazine THE HOOSIER GENEALOGIST Indiana Historical Society The Researcher Tacoma-Pierce County GS Mayflower Journal Society of Mayflower Descendants GFO Bulletin Genealogical Forum of Oregon On our web site for members only: The Genealogical Society of Douglas Co. Oregon The Deschutes Co. Historical Society of Oregon The Genealogical Forum of Oregon The Columbia Gorge Genealogical Society of Oregon The Genealogical Society of Washington Co. Oregon The Red River Valley Genealogical Society of North Dakota The Tri-City Genealogical Society Washington The Pittsburg Co. (OK) Genealogical and Historical Society The Tacoma-Pierce County Genealogical Society Washington The Bend Genealogical Society of Oregon

4 Page 4 February Years!! Willamette Valley Genealogical Society Celebrates 50 Years In 1967 eleven people met around a table in Erma Lee Brown s house to discuss forming a local genealogical society. By February of 1969, more than 80 people signed up to be charter members, officially forming the Willamette Valley Genealogical Society. In the first years, the society met in various places around town, but still participated in the Oregon State Fair, put on workshops, and began publishing a quarterly bulletin named Beaver Briefs. February 5, 1969 The Capitol Journal We have been at Salem Public Library twice and the Oregon State Library for 26 years. We have kept up with the digital age and expanded our free volunteer service, as well as continued with interesting programs, publishing local records, monthly newsletters and a quarterly Bulletin and providing a research service. A complete history of our society over the fifty Years is on our website. We had a wonderful celebration at our January meeting, thanks to Program VP Doug Crosby. We were happy to have charter members Claudine Shaw and Patricia Bissell attend our party. Pat Bissell has been a WVGS for all fifty years. Thanks to all our members who have made this possible! Statesman Journal reporter Capi Lynn wrote a wonderful article for the newspaper, appearing on January 13th, Here is a link to her article: WVGS President Liz Tice and 50-year member Pat Bissell Former society librarian Jim Willhite and current librarian Deanne Smith

5 February 2019 Page 5 Books Online FamilySearch will be scanning some of Willamette Valley Genealogical Society s books. These will eventually be on the FamilySearch.org website. Volunteers from the LDS will be working at Salem Public Library on this project. In exchange, WVGS will receive a digital copy of all materials scanned. FamilySearch Online Book Collection There are two ways to access Family History Books from FamilySearch.org: Through the Books page. Go to and hover over the Search tab. Click on Books. You can also browse directly to books.familysearch.org Type in your search criteria in the search box. These are the benefits of using the Books tab to access Family History Books; only books available online show up in the search and the search can be filtered by using the left hand menu. The potential problems with using the Books tab to access Family History Books are that the search within books does not differentiate between books that are currently online and those that are scheduled to be made available online. Books that are not yet online generate an error message and cannot be opened. Through the FamilySearch Catalog. Click on the Catalog tab of the familysearch.org website. Click Titles from the menu. If you do not know the title of the book, you can also search by Keyword. Enter search criteria in the title of keyword box. When the Search Results display, click on the title you want. The Book details page opens. Click on the link to go to the digital book. The status of the book determines whether or not, it can be viewed online. The status of a book can either be Public, In Progress, or Copyrighted. Some books cannot be digitized and may only be viewed at the Family History Library. A Public document can be viewed from any computer. A status of Public or Copyright is shown when the Copy Link button is pressed after the book is opened. In Progress means that the document is temporarily out of circulation while it is being scanned. If a book is "off the shelf" for digitization, the word "In Progress" will appear in the FamilySearch Catalog next to the name of the book. Copyrighted books can only be viewed at the Family History Library, Family History Centers or at affiliate libraries and are limited to one copy which can be viewed at a time. Reading copies are only open for 24 hours at a time. Sometimes the author removes his/her permission to publicize the book. Sometimes it contains information about living persons and they have asked that it be withdrawn. There may be other reasons, but generally FamilySearch no longer has the rights to display the book online. Because of the way that PDFs and Firefox interact, occasionally images will not sharpen up enough to read when using the Mozilla Firefox browser. If you are using Firefox as your browser and a book appears out of focus, you may need to view the book using Google Chrome. InternetArchive.org Books Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more. The Internet Archive offers over 15,000,000 freely downloadable books and texts. Click the book icon on the left. Then Genealogy in the center: It contains valuable genealogical information and it is continually growing. Better yet, the available documents are taken from a wide array of sources.

6 Page 6 February 2019 State Census Information Periodicals at Candalaria CALIFORNIA State, Territorial, and Colonial Censuses California often took censuses in the years between the federal censuses, the dates are listed below. State census records may have columns that were different or more unusual than those found on federal censuses. The responses and years of coverage may give additional information on the family State 1844 Los Angeles 1837 Santa Barbara 1836 Los Angeles, Monterey 1834 Santa Barbara 1816 Los Angeles 1808 Monterey 1804 Monterey 1798 San Antonio, and Soledad San Luis Obispo 1796 San Carlos 1790 Los Angeles, Monterey, San Diego, San Francisco, San Jose, Santa Barbara 1788 Los Angeles, Monterey, San Diego, San Francisco, San Jose, Santa Barbara, and Villa Branciforte Family History Library Films or Books: 1852 State 1844 Los Angeles 1837 Santa Barbara 1836 Los Angeles, Monterey 1834 Santa Barbara 1816 Los Angeles 1808 Monterey 1804 Monterey 1798 San Antonio, and Soledad San Luis Obispo 1796 San Carlos 1790 Los Angeles, Monterey, San Diego, San Francisco, San Jose, Santa Barbara 1788 Los Angeles, Monterey, San Diego, San Francisco, San Jose, Santa Barbara, and Villa Branciforte Ancestry.com California Spanish Mission Censuses, contains the California mission censuses for San Antonio (1798), San Carlos (1796), San Louis Obispo ( ), Soledad (1798), California State Census, 1852 Family History Library Pre-statehood lists (called padrons) of Spanish, Mexican, and Indian residents have been published in The Quarterly (Historical Society of Southern California), Volumes 15, 18, 41-43, 54. Especially helpful are the Los Angeles censuses of 1790, 1836, and The original records are scattered among various archives. The Family History Library has copies on microfilm. February 2019 Candalaria Connection by Jerry Rodgers The Georgia Genealogical Society (GGS) was organized in 1964 to promote genealogical studies and support the collection and preservation of colonial and state records in Georgia. The GGS research publication is the Georgia Genealogical Society Quarterly. It includes book reviews and articles that advance genealogical research such as transcriptions, abstracts and indexes of original records. Additional information and links to Georgia resources are available on the GGS website. Collection at Candalaria: The WVGS collection begins with Volume 5, #2 (1969) through Volume 54 (2018) and is ongoing by donation. Volumes prior to 1996 are not complete. Index: PERSI (PERiodical Source Index). PERSI is a consolidated index to the records of over 8000 genealogical and historical publications from all over the world. To request a Candalaria publication, use the online request form at the materials link on our WVGS website. Scroll down to the materials stored offsite to find the form. Enter your name, contact information, and publication(s) requested. You ll be contacted when the materials are available to view at the WVGS library desk. If you need assistance, contact one of our helpful volunteers at the WVGS library desk from 11 to 5 Tuesday through Saturday or 1 to 4 on Sunday. For more information on California see: California_Census Also see California Genealogy at California State Library at California State Archives at family-history-resources/

7 February 2019 Page 7 Willamette Valley Genealogical Society Membership Application Revised December 2018, previous versions obsolete Mailing Address: Willamette Valley Genealogical Society P. O. Box 2083 Salem, OR willvgs@yahoo.com For more information: WVGS Web Site Address: The Willamette Valley Genealogical Society was organized in December 1968, to create and foster the study of family history, to aid in the publication of local history, and to aid in the establishment of materials in local genealogical library collections. It is an Oregon Non-Profit corporation, and was determined by IRS to be a 501 (c) (3) organization. Your donations may be federal tax-deductible. WVGS MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION Please if this is a NEW or RENEWAL membership Name Address City State Zip Phone May WVGS include the following in our Members Only membership roster? (please check each box if OK). YOUR ADDRESS YOUR TELEPHONE NUMBER YOUR ADDRESS $ Annual Dues ($25 individual or $30 family membership), includes newsletter and electronic copy of 4 issues of Beaver Briefs Pro-rated Amounts for new members who join after March 31st: SINGLE Apr-Jun: $18.75 Jul-Sept: $12.50 Oct-Dec: $6.25 FAMILY Apr-Jun: $22.50 Jul-Sept: $15.00 Oct-Dec: $7.50 $ Additional cost for postage of hard copy of Beaver Briefs in the mail ($7) for members only, 4 issues $ One-time payment for Life Membership q Under age 70 ($250) q Age 70 or Over ($200) See website for information on Life Membership or pick up a form from an officer. $ Hard copy of Beaver Briefs only ($20) by mail, non-member only, 4 issues $ Other (please identify) $ TOTAL ENCLOSED Please make check payable to WVGS. This information will be used to connect members through our website. Contact will be made through a third party. Your contact information will not be posted on the Members Page of our website. I am looking for help or need help with: I can offer help with: My 5 main surnames are: Languages (other than English) that I can read are: SIGNATURE Date

8 Page 8 February 2019 Salem Area Research Facilities NAME-ADDRESS-PHONE SUN MON TUES WED THURS FRI SAT Woodburn LDS Family History Center 1000 Country Club Rd. [back ring bell] CLOSED 10 am 7 pm- 4 pm - CLOSED CLOSED Woodburn, OR / pm 8:30 pm 8 pm Salem East LDS Family History Center th Ave NE CLOSED 9 am 1 pm CLOSED CLOSED CLOSED Salem, OR / pm 8 pm Salem LDS Family History Center 4pm CLOSED 9am By 9 am CLOSED 10 am Lone Oak Rd SE 7pm 9pm Appt. 9pm 1 pm Salem, OR / ext 7 Oregon State Archives 800 Summer St NE CLOSED 8 am 12 am and 1 pm 4:45 pm CLOSED Salem, OR / (CLOSED State Holidays) Salem Public Library 585 Liberty St SE 1 pm 5 pm CLOSED 10 am 9 pm 10 am 6 pm Salem, OR / (CLOSED City Holidays) Willamette Heritage Center Research Library 1313 Mill St SE CLOSED CLOSED 12 pm 4 pm Salem, OR / CLOSED Willamette Valley Genealogical Society P. O. Box 2083 Salem, OR RETURN SERVICE REQUESTED February 2019 Newsletter